A Distant Mirror Memoir An intimate and endearing portrait

An intimate and endearing portrait of the early life of one of the last century's most important political revolutionaries and one of this century's prevailing icons

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A Distant Mirror Memoir An intimate and endearing portraitA classic history of fourteenth century Europe, from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Guns of August The fourteenth century was a time of fabled crusades and chivalry, glittering cathedrals and grand castles. It was also a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague. Here, Barbara Tuchman masterfully reveals the two contradictory images of the age, examining the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture of